STOCK SALE REPORTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 314, 28 September 1917, Page 1

STOCK SALE REPORTS.

M essrs Alfred Buckland and Sons report as follows :

We held our usual monthly sale in the Pukekohe yards on Monday. There were fair entries in all classes and a keen demand, very little remaining unsold. Dairy cows and heifers made from £9 to £l7 10s; empty cows, £7 to £lO 7s 6d; three to four-year-old steers, £l2 10s to £l4 9s; 18-month to two-year-olds, £9 10s to £l2; yearling steers, £7 15s to £9 4s; yearling to 18-month heifers, £6 to £8 7s 6d; calves, £3 10s to £6 6s; bulls, £8 10sto£l8 18s; fat steers, £ls to £lB 12s Cd jl fat cows and heifers, £ll to £ls 12s 6d. Values for beef were easily equal to Westfield rates. A line of ewes, with lambs, made £1 15s. On Wednesdav at our Westfield weekly fat stock market we penned fat cattle to the number of 201 head, comprising 130 steers, 70 cows and' heifers, and one bull. These numbers wera far below requirements. Competition was extra keen, with a sharp rise of fully £2 per head, and values realised were easily a record for the yards. Choice ox sold to £3, prime quality i2 15s to £2 18s, plain and rough beef £2 5s to £2 12s; cows and heifers £2 8s to £2 16s, steers ranged in price from £l4 7s 6d to £27 15s. Sheep penned in less than average numbers. There was a steady demand, with values very tirm at last week's rates. Extra heavy prime wethers, £2 lis to £2 14s; heavy prime wethers, £2 7s to £2 10s; medium to heavy wethers, £2 2s 6d to £2 6s; light and unfinished, £1 17s to £2 Is; extra heavy prime ewes, £2 5s to £2 9s ; good ewes, £1 19s to £2 3s; other ewes, £1 10s to £1 17s ; best hoggets £l 16s to £2 Is; other hoggets, £1 9s to £1 15s (997 sold). Some spring lambs, the first of the season, Irom Mr Fred. Stephens, Ulevedon, averaged £ 1 8s 6ct. The 62 calves yarded were short of requirements and maintained late high rates. Bunners made from £7 losto£ll 2s 6d; heavy vealers, £6 8s to £7 12s 6d; medium, £.'3 to £5; light, £2 10s to £2 18s; small and freshdropped, 12s to £2 ss; weak and inferior, 4s to 10s (63 sold). There was only a moderate yarding of pigs, and these sold at late extreme values. Choppers made from £6 10s to £9 2s 6a; heavy baconers. £5 10s to £6; medium, £4 10s to £5 5s ; light, £4 2s to £4 9s; large porkers, £3 10s to £4; smaller, £2 10s to £3 8s; small, £1 los to £2 8s ; slips, 12s to £1 lis; weaners, 6s to 10s 6d (179 sold).